Android 4.1 Jelly Bean coming soon to Samsung Galaxy S II and S III?

So, no surprise here then - Samsung is aiming, apparently, to push the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update out to Samsung Galaxy S III owners very soon - with August or September mooted, according to Sammobile.

It's great news considering the Galaxy S III is doing so well in the sales stakes - reports out at the weekend claimed that the flagship Samsung handset has passed 10m sales since launch two months ago.

And there'll be lots of eager beaver S III owners (the ones not brave enough to root and install custom FW) who are waiting for this to hit, and until now have only had the vague prediction of a Q4 rollout to go on.

What's more, the slightly older - but still, frankly, very competent - Galaxy S II also looks in line for the update. Although this could take a little longer, the site reckons testing with the new Android update has proven successful in early stages.

I will be awaiting the update with real anticipation. Probably more so than many others. Here's why. Regular Mobotniks will know I wrote an article recently about my disappointment with the Galaxy S III which I'd patiently queued up for on launch day. Its implementation of the MTP Protocol made it completely incompatible with what I needed to do in terms of syncing music and the phone ended up on AV Forums.

Well, since then, a workaround was found and I excitedly threw the iPhone on AV Forums too, going back to an S III which I am now totally in love with. I've been syncing music left right and centre for weeks and loving every second. Big thanks to iSyncr, by the way, who found that workaround!

Until last week.

Kies told me there was an update for the S III, so I hurriedly downloaded and installed it. Battery life is improved, yes. But what it gives with one hand, Samsung takes away with the other.

It has now completely frozen out any form of connection with a Mac via cable other than Kies. Which means even the Android File Transfer app which many used as a workaround doesn't work. Quite simply, the only thing your Galaxy S III will now do when connected to a Mac is charge.

Samsung are aware of the issue - but let's face it: Mac users are hardly a priority. We only account for about 0.00001% of users. Hardly worth rushing an update out for.

But at least, hopefully, in Jelly Bean, they may rectify it once and for all. Here's to crossing fingers. And hoping they don't remove some other key functionality.

That's impressive given there's only been 7 articles.
I think he doesn't like Mobot, yet he's been posting comments on how it's "SamsungBot", for ages now. I don't think he understands that no-one's forcing him to visit this site.

That's impressive given there's only been 7 articles.
I think he doesn't like Mobot, yet he's been posting comments on how it's "SamsungBot", for ages now. I don't think he understands that no-one's forcing him to visit this site.

No, but as a site that is allegedly supposed to encompass the entire mobile industry, it is tiresome reading nothing but Samsung, Samsung, Samsung every single day with occasional blathering about silly confectionary themed Android releases that most Android phones will never get anyway.

The iPhone is the most popular phone on the planet yet all the Mobot team does is post the occasional snide article about Apple's legal troubles while constantly waxing lyrical about the S3 (The Editor owns one! But he's given it away! Oh, he's sold his iPhone and bought another one!) and posting endless articles about the Samsung Note's tedious and completely expected spec bump.

So what needs to be said about the iphone 4s and do you miss the umpteen articles of rumours about idevices?
Can't see much that has waxed lyrical about S3, few mentions of it's sales figures since launch, generally agreed that we don't want one, pondered what's next on the horizon.

That's impressive given there's only been 7 articles.
I think he doesn't like Mobot, yet he's been posting comments on how it's "SamsungBot", for ages now. I don't think he understands that no-one's forcing him to visit this site.

No, but as a site that is allegedly supposed to encompass the entire mobile industry, it is tiresome reading nothing but Samsung, Samsung, Samsung every single day with occasional blathering about silly confectionary themed Android releases that most Android phones will never get anyway.

The iPhone is the most popular phone on the planet yet all the Mobot team does is post the occasional snide article about Apple's legal troubles while constantly waxing lyrical about the S3 (The Editor owns one! But he's given it away! Oh, he's sold his iPhone and bought another one!) and posting endless articles about the Samsung Note's tedious and completely expected spec bump.
I just went on Techradar's Phones section (bearing in mind Techradar are one of, if not the, biggest independent tech sites in the UK) and counted all the articles, 7 of the 25 articles on their front page were Samsung related, that's exactly 28%. On Mobot, 5 of the 19 articles on the front page are Samsung related, that's 26.3%.

Samsung are the world's biggest mobile phone producer, of course a lot of mobile phone news is going to be about their company and their products. In the same way Tesco hit the headlines far more often than your village greengrocers, more people care about Tesco, than care about your village greengrocers. The same goes for Samsung when compared to other, smaller mobile phone providers. That's not to mention the fact that nearly three quarters of the articles currently on the Mobot homepage have nothing to do with Samsung...

Since Samsung and Apple, between them, pull in 90% of the profits from smartphones, statistically 45% off all Mobot's articles should be Samsung based, shouldn't they? Bearing in mind that smartphone's only purpose is to make companies more money.

i upgraded my S2 I9100G Gingerbread via kies to ICS (DXLP6) and had the same problem, no connection to PC. Tried Vista, XP, and Win7 with the same results. I9100G on GB sucks, hangs/freezes many times daily even while charging or in idle state. Now its very stable but cannot connect to kies anymore. It's not just Mac thats having this problem! not going for samsung anymore. I guess the China phones (ZTE, huawei, etc) are better at rolling out android.

Presently around 53% of the UK mobile-using population of 60m has a smartphone, but it is unclear whether the remainder presently using featurephones will shift to smartphones more quickly than those who already have - who did so over the course of about five years. Some featurephone users might prove reluctant to change.

Gartner's figures also confirmed the world dominance of Samsung, which is reckoned to have shipped more mobiles than any other company, and Apple: together, the two companies took 49.3% of the smartphone business, which itself made up a record 34% of the entire mobile sector, surpassing more than one in three sales for the first time.

now that should show anyone (well not you but you are thick) that the majority of stories will be android.

now i can think of a good 20 phones plus 20 tablets launched in 2012 alone.

apple have launched the new ipad this year.

so why would you expect a non-apple site to fixate on analysing every little rumour about a phone which DOESN'T EXIST.